Quotes About Understanding

Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

Love is not a pie.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

There are people you always love, no matter what they have done to you, no matter what you have done to them.

He said, You know what Oscar Wilde said—women are meant to be loved, not understood. Applies to both of them, darling. And I nodded, although it seemed to me that I was going to be a woman too and I would like it if someone thought they should understand me.

But I know who you should be with. You should be with a guy who doesn't mind that you're smarter than he is, who doesn't mind that most of the time, you'll be the main event. You need to be with a guy who supports how hard you work and who'll bring you a cup of coffee late at night.

Scenes are alluded to but not always witnessed—because in life, one sometimes arrives late, or not at all, to the big scene, even though one feels its aftershocks for years. Conversations are overheard, but not always completely understood, and sometimes, even the eavesdropping must be abruptly curtailed—as in life.

A blind man can see how much I love you

This is why Fuller's definition depends upon consciousness. Our awareness of energy events defines their existence; we cannot go beyond the limits set by our understanding.

As a Coptic priest in New York put it, "[H]umility is a mediator. It will always be the shortest distance between you and another person.

Madame Olga began muttering something under her breath in gypsy to the effect of "Fucking debutantes, they do not understand the sacredness of the moment." But everyone in the room just thought this was part of her gypsy spirit chant.

He waits. "And I think that is what I would like love to be. Leaving room for each other, knowing that not every step is going to be side by side. Giving more than taking. Waiting. Trusting,

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

Well, you know, I'm passionate about that. I just feel that we need to help children from the earliest time to realize that there are ways that they can express how they feel, ways that aren't hurtful.

To make others feel more human, Fred sought to see their Maker in them and then to treat them accordingly.

You know how when you find somebody who you know is in touch with the truth, how you want to be in the presence of that person?" People felt that way about him.

When our children were old enough to communicate, I would try to talk them out of their negative feelings—or convince them there was no foundation for them. But what I found out is that suppressing feelings has the same fate as trying to suppress a beachball in the ocean—they both come out sideways.

If the world could know that we don't have to put people in concentration camps and annihilate people just because we're angry with them. And the anger probably goes back for centuries. If we could just know that.

Fred Rogers' spiritual answer to how we "treat bad people" is much more far-reaching than the psychology behind sublimation

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, in its original French. It read: "L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." What is essential is invisible to the eye.

If there's anything that bothers me, it's one person demeaning another. That really makes me mad!